diff --git a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
index 10918c55003f..4d450672b7d6 100644
--- a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
+++ b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
@@ -583,6 +583,10 @@ static inline unsigned long dma_get_merge_boundary(struct device *dev)
 static inline dma_addr_t dma_map_single_attrs(struct device *dev, void *ptr,
 		size_t size, enum dma_data_direction dir, unsigned long attrs)
 {
+	/* DMA must never operate on areas that might be remapped. */
+	if (dev_WARN_ONCE(dev, is_vmalloc_addr(ptr),
+			  "rejecting DMA map of vmalloc memory\n"))
+		return DMA_MAPPING_ERROR;
 	debug_dma_map_single(dev, ptr, size);
 	return dma_map_page_attrs(dev, virt_to_page(ptr), offset_in_page(ptr),
 			size, dir, attrs);